March

The first SimulMaster has been a success! Hundreds of ICC members turned out to watch Fed battle for a perfect score. Congratulations to FullStep, VolcanoExplorer, kaens and KONT for mastering the SimulMaster!

GM LarryC had to fight against a strong bunch of players in SimulMaster, and found himself playing some challenging games. It's been a lot of fun to watch the GM using all his experience to finish with a good score. Congratulations to Buckeye, numbercrunch, Los13Fantasmas, TahoeSam and kaens for mastering the Master!

GM Alex "Yermo" played his first simul in ICC, and it was really fun to see our commentator wear the cap of the player. He had to face a strong opposition, but managed to play some nice games, and his overall result is not bad at all. Congratulations to the winners: JTiberK, enriquebutti, chesskeys, masonicchess, drstrangemove and Zhbugnoimt!

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Watch GM John Fedorowicz play the FIRST SimulMaster!

Instructions to participate

BLITZIN/DASHER users

Join the simul channel (ch 3). In the chat area (console) just type: /+channel 3

Once the simul is open, type: /tell simulbot join

ICC for Mac/windows users

Go the the Channel list button upper right-hand corner, and add the “Simul”

Go to menu item VIEW->CONSOLE and type: /tell simulbot join

We will be using the "Lottery" system to select the players, in case that more than 25 will join. Here is an explanation of how the Lottery system works:

Essentially, the join-start process will run in a different way. SimulBot will let as many people "sign-up" for the simul as are interested. For example, if it is a 25 person simul, the bot will let 40, 50, 60, etc, sign up for the simul. Then, when it is time to start the simul, the bot will have a lottery and select 25 people to play. The remaining players will be notified they will not be playing in that paticular simul and removed. This method will ensure that all members have a chance to play.

Also of interest is that the lottery system will be setup to give members who play in fewer simuls a higher chance to be selected. There are two things specifically that affect any one person's chance of playing: the total number of simuls played and whether he/she played in the last simul. These two variables will enter into the bot function for deciding how many "lottery tickets" that player recieves.